To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

by Michael Parenti

Overview

Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859843666
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	08/17/2002
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael Parenti’s books include History as Mystery, Against Empire, America Besieged and Land of Idols. His work has been translated into ten languages.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction: Whom Do We Believe?	1
1	Hypocritical Humanitarianism	9
2	Third Worldization	17
3	Divide and Conquer	23
4	Slovenia: Somewhat Out of Step	36
5	Croatia: New Republic, Old Reactionaries	41
6	Bosnia: New Colonies	50
7	Republika Srpska: Democracy, NATO Style	58
8	The Other Atrocities	68
9	Demonizing the Serbs	81
10	On to Kosovo	95
11	The Rambouillet Ambush	108
12	NATO's War Crimes	115
13	The Genocide Hype Continues	130
14	Where Are All the Bodies Buried?	144
15	Ethnic Cleansing, KLA-NATO Style	155
16	Rational Destruction: Eliminating the Competition	165
17	Multiculturalism in Yugoslavia	176
18	Yugoslavia's Future: Is It Bulgaria?	191
19	Privatization as a Global Goal	199
20	The Aggression Continues	205
	Notes	217
	Index	239

Editorial Reviews

Prominent social critic Parenti pens a fierce, elegantly constructed elegy not just for the lives sacrificed in the Balkan wars, but for concepts of national sovereignty and constitutionality, which appear to be lost to a corporate-sanctioned new world order. Extremely disturbing, but, for the brave, jolting and necessary reading.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Thought-provoking ... Parenti makes compelling points about biased media coverage of Serbia.”—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Michael Parenti's To Kill A Nation: The Attack On Yugoslavia exposes a decade of American and NATO disinformation campaigns with respect to Yugoslavia which peaked with 78 days of around-the-clock aerial bombardment of Yugoslavian cities and infrastructure that resulted in killing and maiming approximately six thousand citizens. Parenti draws from a wide range of published and unpublished material, as well as personal observations based on his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999. Highly recommended reading for students of international studies in general, and the Yugoslavian conflict in particular, To Kill A Nation is a valid, informative, iconoclastic challenge to the typical mainstream media presentations of Serbians respecting charges of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and political corruption that have been used to legitimize western policies resulting in the political instability, physical destruction, and economic destabilization of a once prosperous region.